Electric-light support.



D. G. LAMB.

ELECTRIC LIGHT SUPPORT.

APPLICATION FILED 111112.30, 1914.

1,105,083. I PatentedJu1y28,1914,

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ELECTRIC LIGHT SUPPORT.

APPLICATION FILED MAB. 20,1914. 1,105,0 3, Patented July 28, 191a 2 SHEETS-SHEET Z.

i NI ED I T TESPATENT OFFICE.

' DAVID c. LAMB, or NAPIEANEE, INDIANA, A'SSIGNOR TO LAMB BROS. a GREENE, or-

N. APPANEE, INDIANA, A CORPORATION OF INDIANA.

ELECTRiG-LIGHT SU'PPOR'I v To all whom it may mam Be it known that I, DAVID C. LAMB, a

citizen of theiUnited States, and a' resident of Nappanee, in the State of Indiana, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Electric-Light Supports, of which the following is a specification.

' This invention relates, to portable holders or supports for those incandescent electric lights which consist of socketsand lamps or bulbs at the free ends of long flexible conductors or cords.. v

. The present invention consists in an 'p'roved'light support of that type, and in -'-certain novel features thereof, hereinafter particularly described and claimed.

The leading objects of this invention are to adapt the improved light support to attach to itself the ordinary socket of such a light; and to temporarily butsecurely attach the same to anything, round, square or of other shapes in cross sect1on,'1n vertical horizontal or other positlons, and of a sufficient range of sizes-say from one-,quarterqof an 111Cl1 to an inch and a quarter in diameter, so as to support, the light in eifec tive position on. a bed-post or the like, or

within an automobile, motor truck, or the like, supplied with such lights Another object of the invention is" to adapt the improvedlight-support to form or to be combined with a stand, so as'to convert such a light into a portable adapted for use on a table or the like.

Other objects will be set forth in the general description which follows:

specification as part thereof.

Figures 1 and 2 are, respectively, edge Two sheets of drawingsaccompany this and side views of a first species of the improved light support; Fig. 3 is a perspecti've view of the same self-attached to a bed post, showing the cord, socket and bulb of asupported electric light in brokenv lines;

Figs. 4 and 5 are perspective views showing the same support in use on a horizontal bar square 1n cross-sect1on and on a fiat vertical bar. Figs. 6 and 7 are perspective views of additional species of the improved light support, forming or combined with stands for converting such lights into portables as aforesaid; the cords, sockets and bulbs being shown in broken lines.

Lik'ereference characters refer to like parts in all the figures.

ed toform a middle contact (mechanical) with the post or the like to which the support'is attachable in the manner illustrated by Figs. 3, l and 5, where a verticalpost and two 'forms of such bars are shown at 1, 2 and 3, respectively.

Inuall three species, the improved light support isprovided with means for preventing damage to the finish of the post or bar to which it is attached, including in each species cushioning sleeves, a on said arms a; said arms in common with said resilient member I) being preferably metallic. Said sleeves may conveniently be short sections of rubber tubing.

In attaching either form of the improved light-support'to a post or bar 1', 2 or 3, as v above, the resilient member 6 is flexed until the arms a or their sleeves a and the member d will contact mechanically with i Specification of Letters Patent. Patented 1y 28', 1914; Application fi1edMarch-20, 1914. Serial in. 826,032.

the opposite sides of the post or bar, and

the support is then applied to the postor bar, and clamps the same ina secure man ner as illustrated by Fi s. 3 5, so as to become self-attached. Before or after so attaching the support to thepost' or bar, the ordinary socket member 1' of the electric light is secured in the clamp a of the support; the respective ends of the socket, with the attached cord 2' and bulb 3', protruding free from contact or interference as shown in said *Figs, 3-5 and also in Figs. -6 and 7,

In all the species, as shown in the drawings, the clamp o is of a well 'known resilient form in one piece of suitable metal.

may obviously be-substituted if preferred, and other like modifications will suggest themselves to those skilled in the art. In the first species, shown in Figs. 1-5, the axis of the clamp c and consequently that of the attached socket and bulb, is parallel with the'arms a, and the clamp is rigidly attached to the, back of the member'd by a rebent narrowportion, cl, of the latter, embracing the resilient member I) and also a back portion of the lamp c, and ,made fast by solder or brazing sons to rigidly unite.

-Other known or improved forms of clamp,

- first species It differs from the latter inthe three parts, with said member al located at the same edge of the bar 7) as said arms a. In this species, said bar- I) is also further provided with cushions, 6', covering those edge portions which would otherwise'come into metallic contact with the post or bar 1, 2 or 3. These cushions may be of fiat rubber folded around the edge of the bar I) and cemented to its sides.

' The second species, illustrated by Fig. 6, (hereinafter specifically claimed) in addition to the'generic features first above described, includes said bar cushion b of said that said member (5, the-shape of which is immaterial, is also provided with a cushion, 0, preferably of felt, to contact (mechani cally)' with the post or bar, 1, 2 or 3, to

which the support is attachable, or with the top ofa table or the like upon which this spe cies of the improved light support in common .withthe third species hereinafter described is adapted'to stand; the axis of the clamp c, socketl. and bulb 3' being perpendicular to the face of the member (Z. Instead of said narrow portion cl of said member (I embracing the bar I) and clamp 0 in common, said memberd in this second species is separately so attached to:the bar Z) by a shorter narrow portion, 6, Fig. 6; and a normally upright member, 7, Fig; 6, conveniently integral-with said member d, is rigidly attached to the back of the clamp c at the extremityof said member f, and supports the clamp at a sufficient distance from said member d to accommodate the cord end of the socket 1. and a'bend of the cord 2 between the clamp and sa'id member (Z as shown in the figure.

tion of said second species, Fig.6, and is distinguished therefrom by a larger middle member d, having a wooden major portion ,which is provided with a transverse groove,

by an upright forming member, f, provided with a foot, 2', through which a wood screw, j, extends into said wooden portion of the member (Z. A felt cushion c is attached to the face ofsaid wooden portion of the member 03. r 4

It will be understood that the cushioned face of the member d in Figs. 6 and 7 is the bottom of said member all when the support stands on atable or the like as represented in these figures, and contacts (mechanically) with the poster the like when the support The third species, Fig. 7, is a modificas isused in the manner illustrated by said Figs. 3,4 and 5. Also that the sockets 1, cords 2 andbulbs '3 represented in Figs. 37 may be of any known or improved make; and the sockets may or may not be provided withthe key switches indicated at 4 in Figs. 6 and 7.

' Havingthus described said improvement,

I claim as my invention, and desire to patent under this specification:

1. A portable electric light support having a pair of arms parallel with each other, a normally straight bar-shaped resilient member from' the extremities of which said arms rigidly project at one edge, a middle ,arms rigidly project at one edge, a middle member attached to said bar, and a socketattaching clamp connected with said middle member; said arms and resilient member be-" ing provided with cushioning means to contact mechanically with the surface of a postor'bar.

3. A portable electric light support hav-- ing a pair of arms parallel with each other, a normally straight bar-shaped resilient member from the extremities ofwhich said arms-rigidly project at one edge, a normally upri ht member supported by said middle memb said normally upright member.

4. A portable self-attaching electric light support having a pair of-arms parallel with each other, a normally'straight bar-shaped resilient mcmber'from the extremities of which said arms rigidly project at one edge, a middle member attached to said bar and adapted to rest on a table or the like or to beheld against a post or the like, a normally upright member integral with said middle member, and a resilient socket clamp rigidly attached at its back to said normally upright member at the extremity of the latter, substantially as hereinbefore specified.

' DAVID C. LAMB.

Witnesses:

Jason 0. KAUTZ, J. L. NEHER.

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